Scene 13

A small snort came from Jackson as he awoke to the gentle nudging on his shoulder. Bleary eyed he looked up to see his sister holding closed a baby blue short silk robe with one hand. “Time to get you ready for work little sis.” He was comfortable and warm under the sheet and covers as a ceiling fan added extra airflow to the room from above. Jackson responded to his sister with a groan even as he sat up in bed, shifting himself so his feet hung over. Head hung low he licked his lips, trying to remind himself to keep his eyes open and not go back to sleep. After a long moment he worked up enough energy to follow his sister from the bedroom, he continued to follow her through the living room, before stopping right outside his own bedroom. Blinking a few times he looked back from where he came, seeing the door to Linc’s bedroom.

Jackson hadn’t remembered going into his friend’s bedroom, looking down at himself he really didn’t recall getting changed into a chemise that was light pink with white piping around the short hem, the thing was light and the silk felt nice on his skin, but he would have never chosen to put it on or… he hand touched his side, feeling the corset still on him. He glared at his sister, knowing it had to be her because the last thing he remembered was Linc’s hands rubbing the soreness of the day from his feet. “Why am I dressed like this? No better question: why was I in Linc’s room?”

Maddison let go of her robe, letting it hang open, revealing her whine colored seamless high cut bikini panties and matching demi bra. Giving Jackson a view he knew Lincoln would kill for. He turned his head while his sister rolled her eyes. “I love that chemise, what is wrong with wearing it?”

“Maddy.” Jackson closed his eyes, leaning on the door frame, allowing him to feel his hair shift to the side. Reaching up he touched it and let out a sigh, opening his eyes to glare harder at his sister for trying his hair into pigtails with ribbons. “You did my hair before bed.” He said flatly.

“I redid your hair into a cute style before bed.” She replied back in a more chipper voice than she felt. When her brother had passed out the night before, neither her nor Lincoln could wake him for dinner. She guessed the stress of the day had completely zonked her sibling out and since he wasn’t going to wake up, she removed his makeup so he didn’t get it all over a pillowcase and she couldn’t let the sleeping beauty go to bed in something boring. Lincoln had left her to it while he went and played a video game. He had argued a little with her when she made him assist putting Jacqueline in his own bed, but he caved easily under her stare.

“If you put me in this, why didn’t you take this vice off of me? Wait no, you still haven’t told me why I was sleeping in Linc’s bed!”

Holding up three fingers Madison pointed to thumb. “Same reason you didn’t take it off the night before, waist training is a great idea and I’m proud of you for being forward thinking for once.” She lowered her thumb, then pointed to the next raised finger. “This is my room now, this isn’t even your mattress.” She nodded her head towards her bed as she lowered that finger and then pointed to the last finger she held up, her middle finger. “You slept in your room, the one you are going to share with your boyfriend. You could at least say thank you for helping you last night.” She kept her middle finger up a little longer to make sure her brother got the extra point without saying it before she lowered it.

“What!? That's not…” The beginning of the sentence fit with so many rebuttals that came to mind. That’s not what we agreed to, that’s not what I was trying to do, that’s not what I want. He said none of those things though because while he was the one to have every right to be upset he was able to see the annoyance building in his sister's posture. Recognizing that and finally seeing how tired she looked he decided to leave it for now. He ran his hand through one of the pigtails, his fingers sliding through the silky hair. “Thank you for helping me, can you help me get ready and then…” He let out a sigh thinking about what getting ready meant and the type of day he had ahead of him, not just today, but for a good while. “Then maybe we can talk after work?”

“That sounds good to me, we can get dinner and do a little more shopping. A little retail therapy could help us both, I have to be on a bridge call all day. Sitting around all day on the phone just in case someone needs me, not exactly a day I’m looking forward to.” Shopping, just the thing every guy wants to do, Jackson thought, but if it gave him time to straighten things out with his sister. Who was having way too much fun treating him like a doll, then it would be worth the time invested. He made a profit from owning a panini press in college and had convinced the dorm supervisor to look the other way. If he could do that it shouldn’t be too difficult to get his sister to just lay off.

After a shower where he finally got a break from the corset, he ended up having to put a different one back on. He complained it was tighter than the last one, but that just earned him a slap across his backside. “I made it a little looser for you to sleep in last night, this should have your waist where it was yesterday. We are going to tighten this another half inch tomorrow, and I don’t want to hear you complaining about it now or then.” He didn’t talk back, just groaned again at what had become his life. This morning he had to pay closer attention to his makeup as his sister applied the different liquids, creams and powders to his face as she insisted her little sister needed to learn to not be just as good with her with makeup, but better.

When Jackson finally stepped out of his bedroom, he took a few steps closer to the kitchen in the tall heels when he heard a whistle from Linc, who was pouring some coffee into a mug for work. “Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up, chuckles.” Jackson moved around him to get one of the stupid diet shakes from the fridge, wishing he could tear into some of the left overs from dinner that he hadn’t had a chance to eat.

“Not laughing, just admiring.” Things weren’t fully right in Lincoln’s head, but after Jackson dragged him to a closet to demand he let her give him a blow job and time to consider it he was much more on board with things and as he drank in Jackson’s… Jacqueline’s appearance it just got easier. A tight gray pencil skirt with a crisp white short sleeved blouse tucked into it with a wide black belt. Strappy heels that Lincoln judged to be at least four and a half inches with a half inch platform. Jacqueline had thick silver hooped earrings, a tiny silver watch on one wrist and a beaded bracelet on the other, she even was wearing a few rings. Then there was her hair, today she had worn it in a knotted updo that exposed her neck. The blow job made him feel like they really were an item, but they really had only talked about this being for show. If this was real, wouldn’t she have hugged or kissed him this morning? Or should he be the one to initiate… Lincoln never really had anything going with a girl beyond a few days and was doubly unsure with what was going on between them.

“Admiring? Take a picture, it will last longer.” The comeback was definitely something Jackson would say, but in that husky voice it felt more like Jacqueline was offering… no telling him to do it. “Alright come here.” Lincoln said, wrapping his arm around the tight waist of his maybe pretend girlfriend as he held up his phone for a selfie. Jackson smiled, wishing he had kept his mouth shut, but pictures were supposed to help them sell this couple thing. It made sense for a man to have photos of himself with his girlfriend on his phone, so he relented. Giving him one extra with Jackson kissing him on the cheek.

“Alright, we need to get going. It would be best if we started to come into the office together, right?” Jackson nodded to the idea, saving him the struggle of figuring out how to drive in the killer shoes he was wearing and helping the story of them being a couple.

When they arrived at Mega Corp, Jackson gave a smile and nod towards Lily. Who waved back and then pointed towards Lincoln mouthing the words “Is that him!” He could just feel the exclamation mark in the wordless question. When he had been at his desk not allowed to use his phone talking to Lily had been one of the few activities, he could do other than being glued to his desk to answer the phone. Jackson kept the smile on his face as he gave a few nods, trying to look both excited and happy to affirm that yes Lincoln was his boyfriend.

“Do you know her?” Lincoln asked, surprised to see the interaction.

“Yeah, a little. She is sort of a work friend now I guess.”

“Put you in heels and you start making friends here right away.”

“We became friends here if you don’t recall.” Becoming friends with Lincoln really had been the only real connection he had made here over the last year, no matter how much networking he tried to do, everyone just saw him as an intern. Considering how hot Lily was, it was a step up from being friends with Linc, it was just a shame she would only see him as Jacqueline. The two continued to the elevators, talking with Linc made Jackson feel more at ease. He still knew people were looking at him. Girls for what he was wearing, men because they saw him as a piece of meat, but it felt less like he was walking through the room with a spotlight on him with the distraction. The next hurdle came when he was escorted all the way up to his new desk, he went to give Linc a hug, but the man had turned it into a kiss.

Jackson leaned into the kiss, not at first. At first, he had almost pulled away soon as their lips met, but he had the presence of mind to **** his instincts down. Everyone around them knew him as Jacqueline, the kiss would only reinforce the story he was trying to project. Pulling back from the kiss Lincoln smiled looking into his friend’s pretty brown eyes, the longer he looked the more his smile grew. Jackson had continued to act like this really was just some big setup that he was **** into it, but he was convinced that was the act. No man would have done what they did yesterday afternoon. “What?” Jackson asked, starting to feel self conscious as Linc continued to hold him and look at him.

“Just thinking how beautiful you are Jacqueline.” Jackson felt a blush come to his cheeks, he wasn’t supposed to be beautiful, he wasn’t supposed to be held in another man’s arms and he really wasn’t supposed to feel that his efforts to look this way were appreciated. “Oh.” Oh? Did I just say oh to being called beautiful by Lincoln!? “I hope you have a wonderful day, and maybe we can meet up later like yesterday.”

“Yeah, yeah, you have a good day too. That sounds good… yeah. I umm need to get going to make Mr. Dunn his coffee. You umm have a good day.” Jackson felt embarrassed, his friend’s words sounded earnest, and he just kept thinking about how he responded by saying oh. He should have whispered to him to knock it off or joked about how he was a pervert like he normally did to bust his balls.

“Heeey girl!” Jackson had been moving on autopilot to the break room and hadn’t even noticed Tabitha. “I would ask how you are doing, but from what I hear you went from spending quality time with your boyfriend to doing the same thing with Abraham. I don’t know about your man, but Abraham is a good catch.”

“What? How did you know I was with… no nothing happened with him.”

“With your boyfriend or with Abraham?” Tabitha smiled wickedly, she loved seeing how coy and embarrassed the girl was getting. She wouldn’t be the first person to have some fun in the office, she had done it a time or two or three, but never two men in the same day.

“That's not… I just need to make Mr. Dunn his coffee.”

“Okay, I will let you get to it, but you be careful. I know a few people here that would be upset if you took Abraham off the market. Franklin is of course barking up the wrong tree, but still if you need a notary in the next few days, I suggest you go to someone else. He is either going to want all the details before he helps you or he is going to be pissy about it.”

Nodding slowly to the pretty blonde, Jackson took a coffee mug. He had no idea Franklin was gay, it wasn’t a big deal, but still he had gotten a ton of things notarized by him and no clue. Yet she talked about it like it was something everyone knew. “I ahh, will keep that in mind.” It made him wonder what other secrets she knew and if any of them were something he could take advantage of. “Say Tabitha.”

“Jackie, I told you to call me Tab. Everyone else does and I can’t have one of my newest friends being all formal with me.” Jackie, the name his sister had used to tease him with since they were children and it now really was short for the name everyone around here knew him as, n ot that he told the pretty blue eyed woman to call him that.

“Of course, of course. Tab, I would just be delighted to talk to you later. Maybe on a coffee break? I want to hear all about what is happening in the office and…” He thought for a second wondering if he needed another topic and if so what. “I just need to know where you got those shoes.” Tabitha looked down, moving one of her feet out and turning it to the side.

“How is later in the afternoon, around three we can sit and dish. I’m always free around then…” Jackson saw the girl look off at nothing. “Unless I’m just drowning in things to do, but ya know how it goes.”

“I do.” Jackson replied while thinking he really had no idea what she was talking about, he was rather bored with what was on his plate. It was a lot less work than when he was being an intern. “One last question though, what do you umm do when you don’t have any work to do?”

“Girl there is always something to do, but I get what you mean. Just make sure you have a magazine or two to read. I will drop one off I finished reading in a little bit, I’m sure it is what you are looking for.”

“I appreciate you Tab.” Jackson smiled at her as he finished making the coffee, his mind going back to the conversation not long ago about making friends in the office. Now he had another work friend, two he wanted to sleep with and one he gave a blow job too… that last thought turned his stomach as he made his way back to his desk, too distracted once again to think about why he didn’t make a cup for himself.

The best part of the day came right away when Jackson found a message waiting for him on his phone from Mr. Dunn. He wasn’t going to be coming into the office today and to move what he could to his calendar for tomorrow. While doing just that, Jackson smiled, adding a meeting with Lincoln Hatch with the notes of discussion of moving to full time. Mr. Dunn had told Linc that they would talk about it and if the ass started making more money too, maybe he wouldn’t hold him to the promise of paying more for rent. With that done the day evolved into answering the phone when it rang, reading the People’s magazine that Tab brought by out of boredom and chatting with Lily over the office messenger program. Jackson did have to chuckle to himself, he was going to try and get office gossip out of Tab this afternoon and the woman had given him a magazine full of celebrity gossip. At least it would give him something to talk to her about, he reasoned

Around eleven thirty a surprise came to him when Lily messaged her that someone was here for him.

Lilian Hare: I have a surprise for you!

Jacqueline Hart: Please tell me it is good, I need more good news.

Lilian Hare: I think it is, I would be ecstatic if one of my brothers thought to came to visit me at work.

Jacqueline Hart: Madison is here?

Lilian Hare: I can totally see the resemblance, so I would think it is her.

Jacqueline Hart: I will be right down

Before getting up from his desk Jackson remembered this time to send the line to the secretary pool so someone would still be answering the line. Last thing he needed was Dunn thinking he was not just some bimbo, but one lazy enough to not do the job when he wasn’t around. Getting downstairs he walked up to his sister who was off to the side in a waiting area.

“What are you doing here? Didn’t you say something about a bridge call?” Madison smirked waving off the words.

“I did, but your older sister is a genius and figured out how to solve the problem people were having after the last update. Of course, others got assigned to test and review my fix, can’t take the junior programmers' word for it like they would for the others, especially considering I’m a girl.”

“Okay, okay, you know you have a bad habit of not really answering my questions.”

“I’m here because you are going to treat me to lunch.”

“Don’t you make enough money to buy your own food?”

“You are thinking too much about the word programmer in my title and not enough about the word junior. Besides I found a place to help you fit in more here, something better than those cheap forms we got.” Madison cupped her hands in the air in front of her chest to demonstrate what she meant.

“These were not cheap, and I don’t need something bigger.” Madison smiled bigger as she put her arm around her sibling's shoulder.

“You might not need it, but with how flat chested you little sister I’m sure you want it. And if you don’t well you are going to pretend you do. After today you won't be able to borrow my bras anymore.”

“I don’t have a choice in this do I?”

“Sure, you do, you have the option of being a double D or triple D.”

“Joy.” Jackson said in a monotone voice as he was led out of the office building. Unaware that as he went with his sister, he would be missing Lincoln who would be coming to his desk to see about some afternoon fun like he thought they had agreed on.